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Understanding Economic Growth: Review Article of Why Economies Grow
Sharpe, Andrew - In: International Productivity Monitor 8 (2004) Spring, pp. 81-84
The question of why economies grow has been at the heart of economic inquiry since Adam Smith. The final article is a review of the recent book Why Economies Grow: The Forces That Shape Prosperity and How to Get Them Working Again by Jeff Madrick. He argues that the growth of markets through...
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Déterminants du niveau d’innovation dans les PME.
CAHN, C.; IRAC, D.; ASKENAZY, P. - In: Bulletin de la Banque de France (2007) 165, pp. 87-93
Les mesures en faveur de la concurrence pourraient avoir dans les PME un impact contrasté sur leur niveau d’innovation ; cependant, un accompagnement des PME en phase basse de cycle pourrait favoriser leur effort permanent d’innovation.
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Credit Constraints and the Cyclicality of R&D Investment: Evidence from France.
Aghion, P.; Askenazy, P.; Berman, N.; Cette, G.; Eymard, L. - Banque de France - 2008
We use a French firm-level panel data set over the period 1993-2004 to analyze the relationship between credit constraints and firms' R&D behavior over the business cycle. Our main results can be summarized as follows: (i) the share of R&D investment over total investment is countercyclical...
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Why Net Domestic Product Should Replace Gross Domestic Product as a Measure of Economic Growth
Spant, Roland - In: International Productivity Monitor 7 (2003) Fall, pp. 39-43
In the third article, Roland Spant, a Swedish trade union economist, argues that Net Domestic Product (NDP) should replace GDP as a measure of economic growth for a number of purposes. The key difference between GDP and NDP is depreciation. With the shift in investment toward information...
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Evolutionary approaches of economic dynamics (In French)
YILDIZOGLU, Murat - Groupe de Recherche en Économie Théorique et … - 2009
This chapter presents the methods and contributions of evolutionary approach to economic dynamics. First, we expose why economic dynamics can indeed be considered as evolutionary. Second, we discuss sources of diversity and selection mechanisms that drive these dynamics, in the context of...
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The impact of ICT capital accumulation - A complete macroeconomic framework
AUDENIS, C.; DEROYON, J.; FOURCADE, N. - Département des Études Économiques d'Ensemble (D3E), … - 2002
The paper aims at assessing the net impact of the accumulation of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) capital on the economy. In a first part, focusing on the supply-side of the economy, we show that the growth accounting methodology cannot provide us with a measure of the net...
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The Importance of Skills for Innovation and Productivity
Rao, Someshwar; Tang, Jianmin; Wang, Weimin - In: International Productivity Monitor 4 (2002) Spring, pp. 15-26
The fundamental importance of skills for productivity advance is being increasingly recognized. In this article, Someshwar Rao, Jianmin Tang and Weimin Wang of Industry Canada provide additional evidence of this relationship through a detailed examination of the dynamics of innovation and...
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Productiivity Convergence among OECD Countries: The Postwar Experience
Wolff, Edward N. - In: International Productivity Monitor 1 (2000) Fall, pp. 17-22
This article by Edward N. Wolff of New York University examines trends in convergence in OECD countries toward U.S. productivity levels during the postwar period and finds strong evidence for this phenomenon up to 1990, with rapid growth in investment, education, and R&D in OECD countries...
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Gouvernance mondiale, bonne gouvernance et impacts sur les économies en développement (global governance, good governance and the issue of development)
YACOUB, Lamia; OTANDO, Gwenaëlle; UZUNIDIS, Dimitri - Laboratoire de Recherche sur l'Industrie et … - 2010
stakes of globalization incite us to take lessons from this and to seize all the “cruciality” of a new development model. In …
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La politique économique dans la mondialisation : de la récusation au renouveau (The economic policy in the globalization : from the denial in the revival)
YACOUB, Lamia - Laboratoire de Recherche sur l'Industrie et … - 2009
of globalization, its paradoxes and its stakes, have revitalized the polemics about the statute and the role of the State …. The new stakes of globalization incite us to take lessons from this and to seize all the "cruciality" of a new development … better reflected? Key words: Economic policy, globalization, development, State, governance. …
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